What do You think about Mount Dragon (2005)?
If you are scared by current events don't read this book right now with all the news about ebola!Because this book is all about a hidden research complex where scientists are working with deadly virus, pushed to finish what could become the cure for the flu but has so far shown to be lethal. In the midst of that, there is discussion if the use of a genetically engineered gene should be introduced into the human DNA. This is heady stuff and a quiet thriller (rather than raging dragons and zombies...) but will never the less keep you at the seat of your pants.
—Pamela Mclaren
J'ai aimé les personnages. J'ai survoler les 60 dernieres pages car je n'arrivais plus a finir ce livre. Il n'y a pas de chapitre, c'est des centaines de pages qui se suivent sans respirer. C'est peut etre fait expres pour qu'on soit dans le meme etat que les personnages du livre ... mais non je n'ai pas aiméj'ai aimé le fond de l'histoire mais pas la fin, ni le deroulement. La mise en page du livre de poche a quelque lacune aussi, j'ai eu 1/4 de mes pages qui ont etait mal imprimé, les lettres surimprimé presque flou.. J'ai aimé avoir plusieurs point de vue, meme si l'enchainement ne m'allait pas ( trop rapide, trop brutal). J'ai aimé trouver plusieur types d'ecriture celon que c'etait la maration, des messages ou autres. En bref, une lecture un peu compliqué mais que j'ai aprecié..
—Vanessa Vallos
I Don't know how I missed this one. Except for the slightly dated technological stuff it was a great read. As with any Preston/Child novel, the reader must suspend their disbelief. Once that is out of the way, the authors have a sure hand when it comes to ratcheting up the suspense. It's not necessarily twists and turns so much as putting the character in life threatening circumstances and prolonging the resolution of the danger. The plot here involves a scientist, Guy Carson, who is working a scut job under a jealous supervisor when he is asked by GeneDyne CEO and founder, Brent Scopes, to take over a very important project at the GeneDyne facility, near Mount Dragon, in a remote arid section of New Mexico. Guy’s new assignment is to genetically manipulate a very deadly virus so that it will inoculate people against the flu forever. Carson works in a Level 5 facility, with protective biohazard suits and extensive decontamination procedures. His assistant, Susana Cabeza de Vaca, is very feisty and sarcastic. At some point, as you can imagine, there is an accident which throws the entire facility into chaos. Simultaneously, Guy’s onetime college professor, Charles Levine (Brent Scopes’ most vocal enemy) manages to contact him. Guy and Susana discover that there are many secrets about, not only their project, but others before they got there. The plot unfolds from there as events in both New Mexico and GeneDyne headquarters in Boston work to a climax. I was somewhat surprised that the authors could produce such an entertaining story in this, their second book together. I highly recommend it.
—Ed
